I previously added this API via https://reviews.llvm.org/D142792 in
2023, along with changes to the ValueObject class to treat pointer types
as addresses, and to annotate those ValueObjects with the original
uint64_t byte sequence AND the name of the symbol once stripped, if that
points to a symbol.
I did this unconditionally for all pointer type ValueObjects, and it
caused several regressions in the Objective-C data formatters which have
a ValueObject of an object, it has the address of its class -- but with
ObjC, sometimes it is a "tagged pointer" which is metadata, not an
actual pointer. (e.g. a small NSInteger value is stored entirely in the
tagged pointer, instead of a separate object) Treating these
not-addresses as addresses -- clearing the non-addressable-bits -- is
invalid.
The original version of this patch we're using downstream only does this
bits clearing for pointer types that are specifically decorated with the
pointerauth typequal, but not all of those clang changes are upstreamed
to github main yet, so I tried this simpler approach and hit the tagged
pointer issue and bailed on the whole patch.
This patch, however, is simply adding SBValue::GetValueAsAddress so
script writers who know that an SBValue has an address in memory, can
strip off any metadata. It's an important API to have for script writers
when AArch64 ptrauth is in use, so I'm going to put this part of the
patch back on github main now until we can get the rest of that original
patch upstreamed.
Revert while I investigate two CI bot failures;
the more important is the lldb-arm-ubuntu where
the FixAddress is removing the 0th bit so we're
adding the `actual=` decorator on a string pointer,
```
Got output:
(char *) strptr = 0x00400817 (actual=0x400816) ptr = [{ },{H}]
```
in TestDataFormatterSmartArray.py line 229.
This reverts commit 4d635be2dbadc77522eddc9668697385a3b9f8b4.
On target where metadata is stored in bits that aren't used for
virtual addressing -- AArch64 Top Byte Ignore and pointer authentication
are two examples -- an SBValue object representing a pointer will
return the address with metadata for SBValue::GetValueAsUnsigned.
Users may want to get the virtual address without the metadata;
this new method gives them a way to do this.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D142792
Instead of maintaining separate swig interface files, we can use the API
headers directly. They implement the exact same C++ APIs and we can
conditionally include the python extensions as needed. To remove the
swig extensions from the API headers when building the LLDB
framework, we can use the unifdef tool when it is available. Otherwise
we just copy them as-is.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D142926
